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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom Crick find in the river that he thinks caused the bruise that killed Freddie Parr?
(a) A wrench Dick uses to fix his motorbike.
(b) A beer bottle from the defunct Atkinson brewery.
(c) A metal ball from a slingshot Tom has seen Jack Parr use to kill birds.
(d) A cricket bat with an odd indentation and a label that reads F.P.

2. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?
(a) When?
(b) How?
(c) Why?
(d) Who?

3. On the day that Freddie Parr was found dead in the river, Mary confesses what to Tom?
(a) That she is pregnant from Tom, but told Dick it was Freddie's child.
(b) That she is about to run off to London to hide from her father.
(c) That she saw Freddie attack Dick the night before by the river bridge.
(d) That she pushed Freddie into the river.

4. What is the main fish that the Cricks and their neighbors catch for food?
(a) Trout.
(b) Eel.
(c) Salmon.
(d) Carp.

5. What is the name of the student Tom Crick butts heads with the most?
(a) Price.
(b) Jerome.
(c) George.
(d) Dick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the object that Dick Crick treats like it is a real person?

2. What is the landscape the novel is set in?

3. Lewis Scott, the headmaster at the school where Tom Crick teaches, thinks history should be considered part of what other field?

4. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?

5. Which one of the following is NOT one of the ghosts that is said to haunt the marches along the River Leem?

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